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STAR OF THE NORTH,
R. W. Wzivttß, EDITOR.
—. — lu ,S<tfi. i. .'i i
Jlloomeburg, Wtduvdnr, Jl 14, 1887-
Democratic dominations.
FOR GOVERNOR,
WILLIAM F. PACKER,
of Lycoming County.
FOR JUDGES OF TBS SUPREME COURT.
WILLIAM STRONG,
Of Berks County.
JAMES THOMPSON,
Of Erie County.
FOR CANAL OPMMIS*IONER,
NIMROD STRICKLAND,
of Chester County.
JOHN G. FREEZE, Esq.,
If AS returned the practice of the Law in
Bloomtburg, Columbia county, Pa.; and
will give bis prompt and careful attention to
all business entrusted to bim in this and ad
joining counties.
He can be found constantly In bis office, in
liobinson's Row, near the Court Hoose.
AMONG TUB HILLS.
It la a beneficent late that even in the son
of treadmill life of an editor calls us out non
and then among lbs hardy yeomanry and
pure air of :be bills. Doubly grateful to out
wearied brain and body is such a trip tvhen
in town the meroury reaches close to lh
100 degrees, and the brick walla and pave,
ments seem a buge oven. And pot only it
the air more genial out bare, redolent with
Hie odors of the new-mown hay, but there
is a like refreshing spirit of kindness and
hospitality in the hearts of the people.
The farmer holds closer communion
with nature and naturt'a God than tbe nar
row mind pent up in the narrow walls ol
the town. He mey not be able to read the
city daily la the moraiag before the dew
gems have ceased to sparkle on bis meadow
but tbe heatty Iriendsbip of bis neighbor!
and the smiles of his honest family awaken
and exercise in him a far belter nature than
the details of murders and conspiracies move
in his lass moßest town cousin. The rise
and fall of stocks do not distract not drive tc
suicide the husbandman, but his heart and
brawny frame seem to widen out as if in
sympathy with the expanse of bis broad
acres.
Out here among these hillside* and val
leys of Orange we forget the selfish jealousy
of small men seeming great—of candidate!
for Ccngreas each envious o f tbe other—o
politicians each one afraid lest some othei
may groiv greater than he, and therefore
poisoning minds ngainst such rivals as arc
in his way, like in the days of the Borgiai
the vainly and wickedly ambitious ware
wont to poison food.
Aye, bnman nature is ever the same; anc
its frailties only take new forms and nan
names with succeeding ages. The politic!
of Machiaveli come round again with the
Kama unerring oeirteinty a* the plenel of th
physical world. Bat the Isms which spring
trom the diseased mind of city fanstios find
no lodgmant in the clear healthy minds o)
our yeomanry. No wonder ibat in the Wil
mot district there was Tttelyan application
for incorporating a borough one mile and
three fourth square, where lens than 100 per
eona lived, and where two of the proposed
borough lines ran through an unbroken wil
derness. No wonder that Wilmol incorpo
rated the borough, and the Supreme Court
reversed bis decision. There Were no doubt
many great men there as fit to rule a borough
as we have now in our district fit to go to
Congress; that is—in their own estimation.
No wonder these people of the Isms banket
tor tbe flesh ,>otr and corruptions of the towns.
Tbey have become "too tinart," and ought
to sweat out their spiritualism in such ram
bles ss ours among the sweet realities of the
Oranga hillsides and valley*.
Your political Catalines only fatten in the
great sores of the city, and their degenerate
* imitators in aorae town. We mean the reek
's less men who have neither character, merit
nor means, and who yet by brazen impu
dence play opoa and cheat the good nature
of the public unli* repeated rebufTs etd dis
appointments make them desperate adven
turers for any enterprize. When a man hat
no public spirit, and ho interest at stake in
the society*around him, yon have no bond
for hi* good behavior, and you do him t
great uokindness by lending him into tempt
ation.
All hail to the true hearts and the stout
hands l the tbiifty farmers—the only true
masters of the earth—and after each of whom
it can be truly said that the world is better foi
his having live<J in it.
THE CROPS.- — lt is pernio Ito see farmeri
still complaining after Providence has giver
them bopnlifui gifts wbioh grew into wealth
while the husbandmen slept. Much battel
it the spirit of our freind Mr. GEO. KRKAMEF
of Ml. Pleasant township, who rejoices ir
his luxuriant yield of hay, and has left at oui
office a few sample atalkt of timothy mear
uring fine feet and a half inch in height, anc
one of tha beads being 10} inches in length
Alt. Pleaeant has some farmers who under
stand tbe business of nuking the eartb pro
dqctive.aa weH as any in the county. Oth
ers may have land which it or has beer
good—cor Meuuipleasaut neighbor* makt
theirs good.
BOOK- BUTOBRV~- A very desirable estab
lishment cf tUis kind hae been opened in
this place Aryan industrious gentleman who
desirei to make hn honest livslihood at <
useful business amnug our people. Those
who have magazines or books to bind can
now have them done in tdwo.
or Messrs. Hurley & Lloyd havo com
menced their servey of Bleomtberg, end
tbe map of the fown ie therefore e "fixed
feet." Tbey have obtained subscriber!
enough to warrant (Item in going on, but
their book* are etill ope i far "a few more
of the same sort."
(lit Him Agals,
The Wilkmbarre Record vety justly immo
latvs Mr.' Albert O. Richardson, a nodnl New
VeA Advertising Agent, who bee recently
endeavored to get hold of newspaper oolomne
for quack advertisements at $2.00 per square,
while other advertisers pay at from $9 to $lO
a year per square. We received one of bis
circulars some time ago, another recently,
both of which we filed away—in the stove.
If publishers arc silly enough to be caught
by such impositions there ge not much use
for them to hold editor's conventions after
wards for their protection.
Very 'mail Business.
A great part of Judge Kelley's speech at
Lewisbnrg on the Fourth ol July was an ill
uatured scolding of the new cent coin lately
issued by the mint. It don't look well to
him, but lie ought to quiet his nerves by the
reflection that tie gustibus n on ditpulaadum at.
He ia old enough to act like a eenf-sible man
and not like the spunky boy who consoled
himself that if he could not flog his more
vigorour. playfellow lie could at least make
moulha at bia sister. Judge Kelley couhl not
flog Mr. Buchanan last fall, so he puts a
spark to hia peony craker on the Fourth of
July, and fizzles out by making moulha at
the new cent, because it came out under Mr.
Buchanan's Democratic administration. True
hp ought to have his plaything, but this is
rather small,business for an Ex-Judge. Be
sides, hia fizzle was only a few grains of
powder which Theodore Parker a month ago
exploded in one sentence, without thinking
it very smart. Poor Krllsy must feel very
tore since the last election to come from
Philadelphia to Lewisburg to spit bia galL
Book Notices.
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Expioralions—China and Japan; The Athe
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Practical Angler; Manchester Exhibition of
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L# Cot. John W. Forney U iannod* o
prospectus for tlie publication of a two penny
cash daily newspoper in that city, to be call
ed "The Fress." The political basis of the
paper, as every one may suppose who knows
Col. Forney, will be democratic; in all other
respects, ho designs making it a thorough
newspaper, somewhat resembling the two
cent cash papers in New York and else
where. Col. F. has talent and experience in
editing and publishing newspapers, and with
means and a host of friends, which he is
known to command, can scarcely fail to make
a paper worthy of large support. YVe cordially
welcome bitn back to the editorial oar, and
wish him all the success which bis talent and i
worth so justly entitle him.
ROBERT J. WALKER'S RICHES. —The New
York Mirror, whose editor has known Gov.
Walker "intimately and thoroughly, for ten
years," says of him :
After haudlin'g.some hundreds of millions
of the public money, he left the office as poor
as a primitive Christian. Since then he may
have bought stocks and lands and mines that
have made him rich. But when waf it
connted a crime for fortune to reward the sa
gacity even of a speculator! In 1843, Mr.
Walker invested >1,750 in the purchase of
land on what ia now tha city of Fond du Lac,
for whioh he has been offered within a few
months, more than 1200,000 ; and he also
bought, years ago,coal and quicksilver mines
whioh ate making him a millionaire.
SCHOOL AT ESPYTOWN.— Mr. Joshua R. Faua
has taught one term of a select school at
Espytown to the entire aalislaclion of his pa-
Irons ; and had so large a number of scholars
(sometimes 55) that he employed an assis
tant. {la will commence another session |
neat Mew day, cf whictithe term* may he
found ia another oolumn. He laugh t;n this
town last summer, and auatained here an ex
cellent moral character.
FURNACE BDRBTED.— On Friday week, a
blast furnace at Phmnizville belonging to
Reeves, Buek k Co., was blown to pieces,
causing a good deal of consternation in the
the neighborhood. Luekily no persons were
aboni at the lime, or some seriuns injuries
might have been ioflioled. Some of the good
people of Pbcenixville thought the Comet
had come, but they soon recovered from
their fright. /•
THE SUPRIMS COURT NOT SLAVEHOLDERS.—
The Washington Union (eye, the majority of
the Sepreme Court are not owners of slaves,
aa has bean repeatedly ararerled. Feht of tha
Justices reside in free Stales, and the Chief
Justice hit not ewtiedl slave far 30 years—
They came m hfm by inhtaiianoe, bnl he
voluntarily gave them freedom, and
two, who were too old to hike ear# of them*
aelvee, he provided for duriirg their livee.
VALUE or ma HAT CROPS —The bay crop
of the free StSMa in 1866, is estimated by
Mr. Helper, of -North Carolina, to ezoeed in
value >ir dmtr the coltou crop Of tjin Smith.
It also exceeded the value of nil thd eelloti,
rien, hay and bntnp produced in the fifteen
slave aunts. •>' ■
The Law Was. L. Matey. #
The following extract from a later of a fa-,
tber to hie eon, contain! a brief summary 0 f !
the striking oharsctefiaties of the greet Man
whose loss now afflipis the Repeblic:
" Yesterday the Depaittaents were closed
—a token of respect to the memory of Mr.
Marey, Secretary of War duriog the admin
istration of Mr. Polk, and Secretary of State
during that of Mr. Pierce. He has also been
a Governo' of the State of York, a Judge
pi one of the Superior Coyirts of that State, a„
Senator of tbe United State*, fee. I remem
ber him (I was a printer's boy then) When
he waa a student in a law office at Troy, N.
Y. He was a plodding and slow young man
—never making any pretensions, and attract
ing no attention till he began to feel an inter
est and take a par: in the movements of po
litical parties. He then espoused the princi
ples and joined himself to the Democratic
party ; and, when the first opportunity called
his pen and mind into exercise, it wae found
by the discriminating that he was a ttrong
man. He was never brilliant as a speaker;
yet few men in the Union could build up a
stronger argument thaa Mr. Marcy. He was
always ready to meet an opponent, and, in
all his contests wnh political antagonists
through the press, he came off with victory.
In his correspondence with British diplomats
the same success attended bins; and be
showed himself ts much the superior to Lord
Clarendon, as he proved himself to be of the
heretofore Gov. Tallmadge, of Wisconsin,
and General Scotl. His great strength lay in
his determination to keep the right track —to
stand still and examine, until he found on'
the true direction, and then go on. He would
undertake nothing without being possessed
of a good reason for acting—and it fared ill
with the wight who ventured to qaeation or
condemn his course in a manner'that requir
ed of him a reply. From his youth to bis
old age he was industrious—laborious—aqd>
I believe, bis chief aim was the public good
in all that he did. Ido not remember any
act of his life ibat would lead rae to think he
had any of that selfish ambition whicb 100
often urges men to seek office meraly to grat
ify a pride of place. Guided by strong com
mon sense, honesty of purpose, and a patri
otic heatl, Be wis m u times invulnerable to
the assaults of his opponents, whether found
in the ranks or among the diplomat*
of foreign courts. Truly, 'a ttrong man hath
fallen /'"
A Heavy Film.
The following notice of the business of
Frick, Slifer & Co., boat builders of Lewie
burg, we lake from the Home Gazelle:
" The boats built by them have all been
built for the Pennsylvania Coal Company,
and the Delaware and Hudson Canal Compa
ny. They are generally 60 feet in length,
14 feet 2 inches beam, and 64 feet hold.—
Weight, about 40 tons, and will carry 120
tons. Their average value we judge to be
about 51,400. From 75 to 140 hands are
constantly employed by them, and the wages
paid them are from Si 12 to St 50 pet day.
Tltey occopy about 40tf feet river front, aftd
their yard and buildings cover about 5 acres
of ground. From 50 to 100 rafts ol square
timber are purchased by them each year;
and besides these, from 4 to 6 teams sre con
stantly employed during the winter in haul-,
ing timber to their m.ill, from limber lands
which they purchase at convenient to the
mill as they can be prooored. During the
summer there teams are employed on the
canal ; they keep boats running to carry lum
ber, coal, flour, feed, &c.
One hundred boats at 5J,400 each, amonnt
to $140,000, and their sales of coal, lumber,
&c., would make (heir business sum up
something over one hundred and filly thous
and dollars a year. One hundred and forty
hands at an average of $1 25 per day, wonltl
be $175 a day, or $54,775 a year, paid ont
by them to mechanics and laborers in our
town; and this they have done. We are
just giving an estimate based on the largest
amount ol business done by them in any one
year, ai shown by their books, and furnished
to us by Mr. Graham."
IW In regard to the impression attempted
to be made by the opposition press, that
William F. Packer is e prohibitionist, we
give the words of a Democratic cotetnpora
ry
"An effort has been made by the opposi
tion to create the impression that Gen. Packer, 1
when in the State Senate, was a Maine Law
Than, and advocated the passage of the some
what celebrated Jug Law, so called—although
this enactment was made ftco yeari efltr he
retired fiom Ike Senate I The same party that
now attacks Geo. Packer ia the party that
was loudest in advancing prohibitory and re
strictive laws, then denounced in untneaser
td terms Gso. Packer and the whole Demo
cratic party because they would aot go into
The truth Is, that Gen. Paoker during big
entire senatorial oaieer, did nothing more
than to vote for leaving the whole question
of prohibition to the decision ol the sover
eign people. His acta are part of the Legia
lative bit tor) of the State, and an examination
of the Journals of the Senate, during the lime
he was a member of tbe body, wi!l show that
this is bis only offenoe—nothing more. And
this Is doubtless tbe reason why these peliii
co-temperanoe writers sod orators are now
attacking him.
CAN'T-SWALLOW NEG ton WHOLE.-— The
Wilmington Herald, a staunch Rapublioan
paparin Illinoit, which baa swallowed all iba
isms of Iba party without a bona sticking in
its throat, has not the saacoods-like property
of gulping down "negro equality," though
covered with the saliva of "brodderly" feel
ing and mock philanthropy, previous to de
glutition. The editor aaya: v
" Wheoaver negro suffrage beooraas nan of
the planks of the Republican plaAiorao, we
ahaS leal free to seek some other political or
ganieation, and we think we should find moat
of our Republican brethren io the same way."
OT The railroad aceidanta in tba United
States daring the first six months of the year
caused tba death of 40 persons, sod 99 were
wounded. By the steamboet accidents, 61
were killed and twenty wouuded.
Judge Cuiilitkim.
Hon. Thomas Cunnmghatn,ef Bower, boo
written on *Ua letter to \fi. H. Mag 111, Esq.,
editor of the Patriot, pnMished ot Mow bin
boa, Ohio, in relation to abolition ILMpkotit
himself and affairs in Kanaee. The
eatraet will bo read with interett. Judgs
Cunningham says:
" I resigned the office of Judge of the So
preme Court of Kansas voluntarily , because
my personal anifmjvaj* affairs rendered it
i:. convenient forth ao Mid it longer. Tin
southern jodiettrinatrlgt the Territory, to
which 1 waa aaaignod by ihe Territorial Leg
islature, did no) auit me. The population is
rather sparse add the legal business small.—
The dtsirioflrffifficoiii*a access, and when
reached, not desirable ot; comfortable to lire
in. I could not, with aqy degree of proprie
ty, more my family to that remote and so
eluded portion of )be territory, and to remain
there myself in voluntary exile, and neglect
the welfare, comftffi a#d bappinee of my
family resident here, would not only hare
been improper with, end without any'inade
quate countervailaginducement or reward
would hare rendered de culpably amenable
at the domestic forum, in riew of these
matters, I resigned on my own judgment,
uninfluenced by any one, or by other'faets
and ciroumelaoees (ban those mentioned. \
So fir front beieg "mordered" or io "dan*
gar of beiagjqßl&fd" lit Kintal by pro
slavery OM, or H>-a<y tbod yjwlse, I mow
cheerfully and truthfully ana, lo justice 10
the people of ihe Territory, thai I never have
been treated with more kindneie and reaped
anywhere, than I waa by man of all parties
during the time I remained thare. I never
travel in disguise, nor 'elope' from responsi
bility. I returned from, aal went 10, the
Territory, openly and publicly, having noth
ing to fear on account of my own, or from
conduct of others.
Too miserable and base leu fabrication in
relation to myaelf, I regard aa a parcel and a
part of that long, but now threadbare wolf of
political misrepresentation! with which the
people were entertained and miserably de
ceived by the black republican presses and
stomp—and school-beany orators doting tbo
last Presidential campaign.
In my view of the condition of tbinge in
ICansM, fa conduct of the abolitionists, or
so called free 'Stale mpraere II fractious'
and flatly absurd. luatoad of recognizing the
law authorizing and providing for a constitu
tional convention which manifests fairnese in
its provisions and most stringent end potent
safeguards, they refuse to be registered end
refuse 10 vote, although boaatiog of a majori
ty, and consequent power lo control and
mould Ihe ptoceedinge of that convention.—
For private purposes to aid ibem in mailers
of speculation in paper towns and the like,
these same men repeatedly acknowledged
the legitimate existence end the power of the
Territorial Legislators,last winter, while I
was at Lecomplon, by invoking special legis
lation in bestow upon them valuable corpo
rate privi leges and rights; yet when legisla
ting generally lor ihe JVrritory, this same lag
islaioW la denonrioakajHiglufsfad its author
ity denied and contemned. Or in other words,
ttwe lover* end repodipta
legislative authotiiy and actio!, with the same
breath!
What conitruction or just interpretation can
be given to such a coorte or conduct t Out
side of the Kaneaa excitement what had the
abolitionists aod 'ebtiekers' to reet on during
the laet campaign, and what have they now?
Emphatically nothing. Let that go, and the
last note of their one-etringed harp ie forever
silenced. Host then can their conflicting
professions and acligns be understood, but
that they hope slavery may be established on
tbat much abused soil, the deroocratio party
injured, and their own sinister, selfish, and
anti-Union party gain place and power.
Let Kansas be edeafftsd.ae s free State, as
I doubt not she will v be, nnder a democratic
administration, than wiU the shriekers and
their decomposed petty of political scraps
and remnerMd, he beard, from the b die end
valleys to exeliSm:; tMf the man of oi4,
"they have taken away tur gods, and what
have we morel"
The Funeral or Hon. Win. L. Mercy
Took plaee at Albany on Wednesday. Dur
ing the morning a great number of people
visited the Capitol, intending le take e fire
well look at the body. Tney expreaeed as
tonishment end regret at the request of hie
relatives that the coffin should r.ot be open
ed. Thy buildings in Broadway and Stale
1 streets, were draped in mornAg for three
miles. Owing the Isromhumber of arrivals
i of visitors from olheripies, the iuoeral cere
monies were not corhMksnced til%o'clock.
The ceremonies commenced at the Capi
tol, amid the tolling of beels and firing of
minute gape. The venerable Dr. Nott open
ed the exerciser wilh an prayer;
Bee. Dr. Spttgee TOyr ptAtieng of the scrip
ture, and Rev. Dr. aigae delivered a beau
tiful discourse. The' exercises closed with
prayer aod a benediction frem the Rev. Dr.
Welob.
Gen. Wool was the Giand Marshal of the
day. Kx-Presidenls Van. Boren, Pierce, Gov.
King and Ex Gqvemo Hunt, Fish, Seward,
Beuck, Hon. N. P. fanks, and other distin
guished persons were present. * The funeral
cortege was the largest ever seen in Albany.
.e>
THC ELECTIONS or Fasxcc—A SIGNIFICANT
FSCT.—Three of the Republican candidates
in Peris have beOn eleotyd to the Legislative
Assembly. This shows peitongth in the Re
publican party, whioh once evinced may here
after be the eeue ef tome Uouble to the
present suiocrtt, to spite of Ms eoppression
of ibo freedom of the ballot-box and of the
press. It shows seme 'jiffiir" to mime for
ward in oppoeition. fo lbs government when
every reses-moeU be e.marked men, end the
faet proves that the Republioaas have more
confidence in themselvee and in their objeets
thee previous aveqis wop Id seem to. jpatify.
The Emperor is, bowsvsr, shrewd aod on
sernpulous, and,if ooeaaien eatls for it,he will
net hesitate to use his power to silence op
position.
AS Tonkbennook, Wyqpiog county, Pa.,
Geo. A. Chase is appointed Postmaster, vice
James Kelly, resigned.
conning the Ugaat tslssm. .
Thp Republicans ore making a detporkle
effort to secure t|e liquor influence for Mr.
Wilmot. Two years ago they protended eym
pethy with lbs prohibitionists, end adrocated
the election of PoHook on the ground (bat
ho was o 'hotter temperance man' than Gov.
Bigler. Finding that that ruse will not work
f in the present gampaign, they are now qnite
as industriously engaged in propitialiog lbs
liqeor influence as the were the temperance
influence then. Evea their candidate, Mr
! WWfoot, baa beentpomaed into the service..-
While! in Philadelphia reoently, he rieited
ail the groggeties in the city, with a riew
of catching rotaa in that quarter. Just think
of it I Two years ago their candidate stood
upon the prohibition platform; now bo is
flourishing in lbs grog shops and among the
whiskey barrels! "Can each things be,
and otercome oa like a summer cloud, with
out our special wonder I" A party which
stoops to such mesneess can oarer prosper.
—Hotlidayeburg Standard.
AH AMESICIN MINISTER IsDtOMiKT.—A
letter from Bucharest of tbe 9th ull., in tbe
Eloilt du Danube, says:
"Mr.Spence, Minister of Ihe United Slatae
at Constantinople, arrtred at our capitoi a
short lime ago. He, ol course, immediately
paid a visit to the Caimacso, but ten day*
passed away, end without the latttr returning
it. The American was offended, especially
as he knew the Caimacan war accustomed
to pay frequent visits to the East Austrian
Colonel, and tent one of his legation to de
mand explanations; but that gentleman pre
sented himself several times at the palace
without being receired. Two eremugs
back, at Sir H. Bulwer's weekly reception,!
the Caimacan, finding bimaell near Mr-
Spenoe, ex lauded bim the bait, but Mr. Sper.ee
declined to receire it. The Caimacan then
said that he had excuses to make to Mr..
Spence, and the latter replied, "You hare in-;
deed, air," and turned his back on bim. Tbe
day after, the Caimacan paid a visit to tbe
Amerioan Minister."
ST**HOE AND MELANCHOLY DEATH. —On
last Sunday week, the daughter of Squire
Scudder, of Liberty township, while reading
a piece olpoetry entitled "Do iby miss mrs,
"Sl'ffotae,'' was so much affeeted that she
fainted. Her mother immediately sprang to
her assistance, and together with Mr. Scud
der, her father, did all in their power to re
rive her. It waa fifteen minutes before she
became fully sensible. Her mother had lost
all hopes of ber recovery again to life, and
ran to tbe door, claiming she war very nn
well, at tbe same lime throwing up a quan
tity of (roth and blood. Scndder assisted his
wife to bed, and in less than one hour she
was a corpse. She wae in perfect health
previous to this. Hr death, no doubt war
from tbe rupture of a blood vessel, caused by
the sudden death, as she thought of her
daughter.— Hamilton I Ohio ) Td., 25 1h.
CP* The best Sculptors in Peris are said to
reoeive, on an average, four thousand dollars
tor statues ten feet high. But the ablest
sculptors in Ilaly receive maoh lsa ihsn ibis
sum. The statues recently erected in Flor
ence to the memory of the illustrious men
of Tuscany, sixteen or eighteen in number,
cost something over one thousand dollars
each—most of them exrooted by men who
rank higher in Ibis department than Mr.
Powera. It is not pretended lbs) this sum
adeqoately rewards their talents, but they
accept such commissions to furtheathe pa
triotic objects of (heir government. Mr. Pow
ers himself gives a goide by which lo es
timate Ihe pnoe of a single statue, in his
several copies of the Greek Slave, which be
haa sold at <3OOO asch.
lnll
BT'An intelligent Southern gentleman,
who haa recently been traveling ia the bor
der counties of Missouri, says the pro
slavery men have abandoned all idea of sue
cesa, ir> tbe contest wiib the Free State men
in Kansas. He sayetbal every boat that has
gone op from St. Louie since the opening of
navigation, has been literally loaded down
with emigrants, nine-tenths of whom are
from the Eastern, Western and Middle States,
who will vote against a slave eonstitoiion.—
Our informant says the "border ruffians"
good bumoredly admit that 'the jig it up,'and
declare their determination to attend to their
own affairs, and let Kansas take care of her
aalf.
DISGUSTING IR Taue —The following para
graph ia going the rounds:
"The Troy (N. Y.) ladies have introduced
a new feature at their faua, which makes
them drew like ateam enginea. All the most
bewitching girls wear plaoarda labelled
"kisses one (billing each," and ie some
<*aes where dealers possess extraordinary
beaaty, es high ee twenty -five cents ie ob
tained. Gentlemen who are fond of gather
ing this kind of frail, "melting from trees,"
go in for it aocording to the weight of their
parses, and one ef tbe newspapers stales
that one rosy lipped bright eyed gall realized
562 in one evening. One gentleman actually
purchased SM worth of Ibis honey.
THE Caop*.—The crops of wheat through
out Berks county Is considered the best that
has been railed for many ygars. The wheat
aiande vary even on the ground, the heads
are large, and the grain bids fair to be of
superior quality. The harves will be abont
lau days later than usual. Rye and oats also
promise a good crop; but the corn, generally
well set, and healthy looking, owing to the
late planting, and too much wet wither,, ia
some loeaiities ia small.
OT The Fosionieta are like Winobell'*
dog that tried to jump serosa a welPin two
jumps, first over Abolitionism and then Hin
doo ism. There are a great many people
just like that dog—folks that think they can
jump across a well in two jaraps. They that
undertake the experiment uaoaily "bring
up" down in the water.
NnMfoperi in ACiitneMta.—There ars 31
papers now existing io Minnesota, whereof
IS are Republican, II Democratic, and 7
Neutral. Three dailiea, published in St.
Paul.
JLJB—■nun
H *M*< DtWln.
3
Om of the mil strlkiag incidents la ibo
fesrffll tragedy near Qoobof, was the eon
duct OF MM. MoomfleU, hi saving TOO chil
dren. fct held, to a tope with one hand,
keep ha the head of oee Child above the wa
ter with die other, aad holding the olhr op
by fattening her teetb le lie dreea. Co beeey
woe the load that two of her teetb gave way
and were loet, jet he still retained her bold.
At lait a boat came lowarda her, and men
ware (creaming all arpund her to be taken
n hodetf. Shy cop Id cot scream, bot a man
teeing bet eithation, brought a boat to bar,
telhng tbeaa (he needed help moat. Then
her strength gave way at the proapect of re-1
lief and eafety, and aha came near drowning
before she ooold be lifted into the boat. She
was a tight, delicate woman in apfearanoa,
and one wonders bow she was ever able to
endure to ranch. Out reader# will exclaim,
wbat will not a mother do t Bot theae chil
dren were not her own. One of them, aged
eighteen months, ia named Jennie, as Mi*.
Bloomfield heard it oalled on board by its
parent*, wbo worn from Glasgow, and wore
both lost.
Philadelphia Markets.
Flour and meal.— The market ia doll, and
good brands of flour are offered at $7 IS per
bbl., and brands lor home consumption a #7
25a7.60, and extra apd fancy brands at,*B 00
a 9.25. There ia very Ihtle demand for ex
ports and little stock' to operate in. Bye
flour is held at 84.73 per barrel, and Pennsyl
vania com meal at 84 par bbl.
Groin—There ia Ihtle demand for wheat.
Sales of prime Pennsylvania red ware made
at 8l.8&al 86, and 81 90a1.93 forgcod wbits.
Rye is doll. Pennsylvania is held at 82.05 a
1.10. Corn ia nnaettled. Penn'a. yellow ia
held at 87e., afloat and ia store, and buyer*
ofler bat 860. Oats ate steady; sales of
Pennsylvania snd Delaware at 65ic. per
bushel.
Stedt —Cloverr-eed ii scarce and higher-
Sales of prime range at $7.25 per 64 bit.—
Last sales of Timothy al 83.50a375, and
Flaxseed at sMal.o. Sales of Red Top
at $3 50. Herd Gram, $3.75.
Whiskey if dull al 32c. in bbls.aod 310.
fir hfftft. - • <
ODD Fiixowsnir is ENGLAND. —The Man
chester (Rug ) Unity of Odd Fellows report
that the society had expended daring the
year in aiok-pay to members £130,000, £30,-
000 in funeral gifts, and £40,000 for the re
lief of widows and orphans. The oapital of
the society is £1,755,000, and daring the
last twelve months fifty new lodges bad been
opened in various parts of the world. In
1852 10.613 new members were initiated; in
1853 16,616; in 1854 18,836; in 1855 21,318;
and in 1856 38,546, of whom 11,585 were
under 26 years of age.
AM INVCNTIOM baa been brought forward
which promises soaaething of importance in
enabling the compass to work with certainty
ooiron vessels, ft ronsiste solely in covering
the ordinary .-box with cork, or the pith of
eider wood, with several coats of resinous
varnish or sealing wax. The bowl in which
the oompavs is suspended is also lined with
the same, and the result is not a complete
annihilation, but a very great diminution of
the effect of all local attraction.
THX SABBATH.— It is,very remarkable that
the heathen nations, who can be supposed
to have no knowledge sf lb* law or history
of Moaes, account one day of the seven
more sacred than the rest. Hesiod styles
the seventh day, 'the illustrious of tire Son:'
and Homer says, 'Then came the seventh
day, which is sacred or holy.' Almost all
nations, 100, who have any notion of relig
ion, have appropriated ona day in seven to
the purpose of public devotion.
OT The Southern Journal of Medical Sci
ence states "that a boy in the vieinity of
eight years of age, has bin lower extremities
turned completely amend. The heels are
in front end the toes behind." We have
in thess parts a political fustts naturae of the
same kind in the Republican purty. Its ne
gro heels are always |a front, and its toes are
pointed behind, indicating ita 'advance back
wards.'
TIN PLATlS— that is, thin pistes of iron
dipped into molten tin, which eoverathe iron
completely—era manufactured in South Wales
and Staffordshire, to tba extent now of About
800,000 boxes annually, equal to 65,000
, tons, and valnad at £1,600,000. In Eugland,
almost every article of tin ware is formod
from these plates. Nearly two-tbirda of tha
lotal manufacture are exported, principally
from Liveipool to the United States.
OT Eggs, it is said, can better preser
ved in oora meal than tit any other prepara
tion yet known. Lay them with the email
end down, aud if undisturbed they will be
aa good. at tbe end of e year ea when packed.
Another very good method in to grease tbem
well. In ihie way they may be kept through
out the winter.
ALLCGKD Foaocatts AND ARREST. —About
three weeks ago forgeries were committed
upon the Eastou (Pa.) Bank, and other banks
in its vicinity, to ths amount of about 810,-
000. On Fridny laal n man namsd Howsll,
1 charged with being tbe author of Ihe eaid
forgeries, was arrested on board a ship about
to wait from Boston to Europe.
tW The Ceel Tiede pf Pittsburg haa been
unusually actige this season, the shipments
for Ihs Ipst Be# months having rsaebed 16,-
477,<U$ bushels. This •acludat only what
passed through the looks of ths Mouonga
hel*, so that tha total ahiparoots may be eel
down at a boot 31,000,000 bushels.
| 9* It is is stid tb'ai hundrsds ef grssn
! horns who bought stock in tbe Chaster county
Copper Mines, on tho strength of being mM
that they rotsftgreat amounts of copper there,
will never vufhuni for their money, the
labors of miners there are said no be to vtm
Spring chickens cam be bought in the Phil- j
adelphia markets at & gdhta a dozen But
tbey ais in the rggs, unhatched.
A SOLEMN SCEMB —At a private residence,
corner# TMfth and Green Streets, a mel-
affair oecnrrsd on Sunday night. The
family eonaists of a metbet sod several ebil
diwn, of which two are yooag men grown.—
The latter bed beet out during the afternoon
and bad indulged in drink. They quarreled
While at sapper table, when a younger broth
er interfered, but without avail, to bring abont
a reconciliation. The mother next essayed
to still lbs turmoil, end, it is said, received
harsh replies from the sons. Bbs fell m a
swoon opoti tbt floor daring the altercation,
and was dead befofo the strife ceased. Who
can envy those rash lads the remorse to
which henceforth they will forever be e prey.
—Pkila. North Ameritan.
OF The crops all over the country, says
a Oermantown paper, are, beyond question,
as abundant aa they have beee Within twenty
yean, and yet the amount of croaking kept
op to within a couple of weeks, ba* been par
ticularly loud and impertinent.
They are substituting mule* for the more
aristocrat ie horse in the omnibos line* and
for express wagons in Cincinnati.
Special Notices.
.Halloway'i Ointment and Pills.— Possessed
of these remedies, every man is bis owii
family physician. If his wife snd children
are troubled with eruptions, sores, tumors,
white swellings, sore throat, asthma, or any
affectiou of ths skis, glands or moss let, a
persevering nee of the Ointment is ill that
is necessary to produce a radical care. If,
on the other band, the etamal organs are as
sailed by dienaee—whether it be located in
the liver, the stomach or the intestines—he
can eradicate it by administering the pills to
the sufferer, under the guidance of the clear
directions which accompany every bdx.
WHITE TEETH, PERFUMED BREATH
AND BEAUTIFUL COMFLEXIOH— can be ac
quired by using the "Balm of a Thousand
Flowers." Wbat lady or gemleroan would
remain under ibe curse of a disagreeable
breath, when by using the "Balm of a Thou
sand Flowers" as a d--unifies, would not only
render it eweet. but leave the teeth as white
as alabaster 1 Many persona do not know
their breath ie bad, and the subject ia ao deli
cate their friende will never mention it. Be
ware of counterfeits. Be sure etch bottle is
signed FETRIDGE & CO., N. Y.
For ea!e by all Druggists. _
Feb. 18, 1867—6 m.
AAAAMAAA.
On the 28th uh., by G. P. Lore, E-q., Mr-
CYRUS MOHR, or Montour county, and Miss
ELIZABETH BITLCB, of Moreland tp., Lycom
ing connty.
On the 11th inst., by Ibe Rev. William J.
Eyer, Mr. L. E. PORTER, and Misr SARAH
MILLER, both of Calawiaa, Pa.
U21&i0o
In Fairmonnt, July Ist inet.. HESEIETTA,
daughter of George Guixer, Esq., aged 13
years.
The aotjecl of this notice, attended the
asleot school at New Columbus, for a consid
erable length el lime, under the superintend,
ence of Mr. Wirt, and also the New Colnm
bus Male and Female Academy under the
charge of Mr. Anderson, from its commence
ment until the last term, from which she wae
prevented by sickness.
She wae all life and activity. Gemlu aml
affectionate in disposition, she won the love
ot her preceptress,and schoolmates ; and hor
early death ia mourned by a large circle of
friends. [COMMUNICATED.]
On Friday, July 3d. at his late residence
near the Wyoming Monument, FISHES GAT,
Esq., aged 79 years.
Mr. Gay was one of the few remaining
"old settlers" of our Valley—ha resided at
tb* place where he died, for the last half can
>nry, where he reared a large family—exer
cised a oordial and friendly hospitality—en
joyed life, and was ever reedy to promote the
enjoyment oh others. He was eminently so
cial, a good citiMo, a good neighbor, a true
friend and an hooest man. A Isnre concourse
of frisnds and neighbors attended bis re
main* to the old Forty Fort grave) ard, where
they were interred with Msaoate honors by
bi* brothers of thai Order which in iifo be
loved so mail—Wdkesbarrt Record.
TOLLS A#'B&€l llVEft.
COLLECTOR'S OFFICE, I
Beach Haven, July led, '67. )
Ma. EDITOR:— The amount of tolls receiv
ed at thia office are aa let tows:
Previously reported, . . . 831270 13
lune, 29536 02
FIRM, IQ oo
Total 860816 15
JOHN 8. FOLLMEU, Collector.
SELECT SCHOOL AT ESPYTOWN
JMhia K. Fans
lA7ILL open a term of school in Espvtown
" oo MONDAY, THE 30th OF JULY,
upon the following terms:—
For Orthography, Rsading, Writing
snd Oral Arithmetic, per form ol 12
weeks, $2 25
For Geography, Grammar and Writ
ten Arithmetic, 3 00
For Philosophy, Astronomy and His
tory, 4 00
Espylown, July 13, 1857.—1t.
CHARLES STAHL,
OOOK BINDER, has located in Blooms
burg, where be will bind books, period
icals and pamphlets in any desirable atyle
and manner; and at reasonable prices. He
will bind newspapers and magaxine*, plain,
in library style or in morocco ornamented.
He bas hit place of business in Hopkins
villa with Mr. F. Isler.
Bloomsborg, July 13, 1857.
Liil of Letters,
f> EMAINING in ths Post Office at Blooms
burg, Pa., for the quarter sadtug June
30lb 1867.
Bird Eftaira Miich#ll*Rev T
Bom boy Walton Moneypenny Thorase
Bar net t C A Fetter Amelia A
Biases John .Base Cbaiteey
Baylor John Rhodes Matilda
Cramer A W Slo.hfoy C bar foe t J
Duffy James Sieel Hannah M
EHu Thomas Salmon J M
Fieelsnd Th*Meas BSt.aton E W
Freeze J L Teter John
Fisbar David Tittle Adeline
Ueiger Sarah Ann Tnlhert John
tWfospy William Tressqfor Leak k BRR
Uause-John Waiii Samoa!
Huff Isaac Wood lock John
Haver John Cream Cornelius, Ship
Herring George A C Silvester Abednego do
Hbff Joba Spiers William do
Leacbibolien Conrad WoHenteo Pickles do.
Mills U C
Persons calling for the above letters wit
pletis tay they *ie advertised.
P UN ANGST, r M.